Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
the tarballs of both from the Mozilla site, and simply untarred them into my home directory. They both work great that way, as long as your system already meets the basic dependencies (GTK2 and XFT libraries). -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you

Re: [expert] Re: Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:43:52AM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: If you mean for Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3, then I don't think anything is up yet. But last night I downloaded the tarballs of both from the Mozilla site, and simply untarred them into my home directory

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Sherman
on their site, including one devoted to running Linux on their systems. All in all, I've been very happy with this unit. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Dave Sherman
out and capture.) I *could* hack this program to do what I want, or just use cut and paste, but I can't believe there is nothing else out there. Does anyone know of anything that will suit? Actually, minicom *does* do file send/receive. 'man minicom' to find out how. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE

Re: [expert] Dropped packages - Attack?

2003-08-17 Thread Dave Sherman
ports: 445, 135, 1839, 2536, etc. Is this normal attack attempts or results of the infamous worm? BTW: I'm not using any donkeys or such kiddie stuff. Well, the worm is known to scan on ports 135 and 445. Can't say about the others... -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Sherman
sudo) run the following command: service network restart to restart your network services without rebooting. However, depending upon how the cable company is set up, their systems might refuse you Internet access if you have a hostname that they don't recognize. Good luck. -- Dave Sherman

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Sherman
nicely for me. Even if it automounts a CD-RW with stuff already on it, the mount point is /mnt/cdrom, which does not interfere with k3b using /mnt/cdrecorder. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your

[expert] kde question

2003-08-02 Thread Dave Sherman
Hi all, Anybody know a way to make KDE recognize a DVD when I put it in the drive (supermount works), and automatically launch Xine? I know I used to do it when I used Gnome, and I figure there's gotta be a way with KDE. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons

Re: [expert] wpd2sxw

2003-07-10 Thread Dave Sherman
part of the job for you. Check out this URL, you might find what you are looking for. And maybe someone will be able to write a script the automate the use of one of these tools, and be able to do what you are looking for. Here's the URL: http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy! -- Dave Sherman MCSE

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
risk, but my laptop is mostly single-user (my wife occasionally plays Frozen Bubble on it). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
for supermount -- K3b mounts it on demand, and presumably unmounts the cdrom mount point at the same time, so there are no conflicts. If *both* mount points are setup for supermount, but they use the same device, wouldn't this be rather ... counterproductive? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
assuming that K3b is unmounting cdrom (which would have been automounted) before manually mounting cdrecorder. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim

[expert] 2.4.21 Variable HZ Howto

2003-07-01 Thread Dave Sherman
the pretty blue Mandrake graphical boot screen, which I might like to get back, but at the moment I am happy to have a working kernel. Hope this helps, and have fun! -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-06-30 Thread Dave Sherman
! -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Installation advice

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Sherman
, but it is still a monster for memory. I always had better performance using Galeon under Gnome, with either Mandrake or RedHat. In spite of my above comments, I now use Mandrake 9.1, KDE and Mozilla, but on a much faster laptop :-) -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing

Re: [expert] hostname

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Sherman
by an entry in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-*, or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*. The dhcp client daemon can overwrite these files, if it receives a hostname from the dhcp server. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
and I've been told that the 8500 should work out of the box. Any help would be seriously appreciated. Thanks. Have you checked this page? http://www.zebulon.org.uk/3D8500_en.html -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong

Re: [expert] a bit of a mailserver technical question

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
or even days, before bouncing back to the original sender with a Host unreachable message. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] System locks on logout

2003-06-22 Thread Dave Sherman
laptop. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Sherman
, not music CDs -- I have heard via my local LUG mailing list, that several people have had difficulties burning music CDs, even though they have no trouble with data CDs. I did not install any of the additional programs that the K3b setup program looks for. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think

Re: [expert] OT LTSP + Mandrake = Mandrake on Steroids.

2003-06-13 Thread Dave Sherman
face -- always a Good Thing. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Dave Sherman
. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] third test to list

2003-06-10 Thread Dave Sherman
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Keeping up with security updates with older systems

2003-06-06 Thread Dave Sherman
could use source rpm's. That way he still has the package control of RPM, and adds to it the ability to get the latest source package for an application and compile it for his system. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting

Re: [expert] Linux Flash Player trouble.

2003-06-05 Thread Dave Sherman
, and it opened the site without breaking a sweat -- CPU was hovering around 20%. Running Mozilla 1.3.1 with libflashplayer installed. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
, to resize the NTFS-5 (WinXP) partition on my laptop. This was less than 6 months ago, so it should still be available. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
a clean install. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM9.1: DVD ejects automatically

2003-04-05 Thread Dave Sherman
reader ejects it automatically after 10s Have you tried calling mplayer from a command prompt, and watching any messages it kicks out? Maybe it's failing to mount the disk, or something... -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] wireless in ML 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Sherman
PC card. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 rc2 and radeon 7000

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Sherman
bug in the radeon driver - I found the problem mentioned in the Mandrake Cooker mailing list archives. I am running Mandrake 9.1 rc2, updated to Cooker, including X 4.3. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Update to Cooker?

2003-03-20 Thread Dave Sherman
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:05, Dave Sherman wrote: This is probably a silly question, but I have so far been unsuccessful in finding the info I am looking for... Can anyone tell me how to update Mandrake 9.1rc2 to Cooker? You have to create a urpmi source with a cooker mirror

[expert] Update to Cooker?

2003-03-19 Thread Dave Sherman
This is probably a silly question, but I have so far been unsuccessful in finding the info I am looking for... Can anyone tell me how to update Mandrake 9.1rc2 to Cooker? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Linux installation

2002-12-17 Thread Dave Sherman
luck. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread Dave Sherman
/fstab file? Then we can compare it to mine or someone else's and see if there is a difference. Here's mine: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc

Re: [expert] secure ftp

2002-12-17 Thread Dave Sherman
) and ftp (sftp). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherman
. Thus, I fixed it by making it setuid root. Dave Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have user

Re: [expert] IP

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 23:14, Brian York wrote: How can i find out the ip address of a machine that has been assigned an ip by DHCP. Thanks Brian /sbin/ifconfig -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc Description

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-15 Thread Dave Sherman
the same thing on umount. This is not a secure solution, but it works on my (single-user) laptop. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] Mozilla Plugins

2002-12-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:28, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi all, Mozilla used to list under helpabout plugins where the plugins were located but it doesn't do that anymore. I am trying to put in the flash/active X plugins but can't for the life of me see where to put them as there is no

Re: [expert] linux_logo on thinkpad

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Sherman
that the MHz is correct. But your model 600 is olde rhtan mine, so Tom may be right about your being underclocked. -- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Solutions Group, LLC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk

2002-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:42, Jim Dawson wrote: I can think of a few options, none of them good. 1: Install VNC on both machines. Could you explain why you consider VNC a not good option? Just curious. -- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Solutions Group, LLC signature.asc

[expert] Convert Evolution contacts to kaddressbook?

2002-11-11 Thread Dave Sherman
Anybody know how to do it? I've been googling the net with little success... -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety

Re: [expert] Can anyone paste a lot of text into a Mozilla formtextarea?

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
an OpenOffice doc into my website's web-based content editor (a form w/ textarea). I haven't taken any time to troubleshoot it, however. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety

Re: [expert] Apache and Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:03, Robert Fox wrote: Thanks for the tip but there is no .htaccess file there (did an ls -a) Any other suggestions? How about reading the Apache documentation? -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA

Re: [expert] Apache and Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
value, even if you suffered a few headaches along the way. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |- Benjamin

Re: [expert] Network Interfaces at boot time?

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Sherman
to the Networking module, you will be able to create separate profiles for each NIC in your laptop. I haven't used that before, so I can't vouch for its abilities... -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety

Re: [expert] Samba , PDC, ldap, Winbind.

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Sherman
then), so you really can't go wrong by installing it and checking it out. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety

Re: [expert] Slow desktop

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Sherman
installing 9.x until I have a newer machine. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |- Benjamin Franklin (1706

Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system

2002-09-26 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:54, tarvid wrote: looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative Jim Tarvid Geeklog!! http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/ Here's my site: http://sildara.dyndns.org/thuria/html/index.php -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic) [nowback on]

2002-09-06 Thread Dave Sherman
(and preferably an additional point release, to 9.1). -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |- Benjamin

Re: [expert] Set up a network from scratch

2002-09-05 Thread Dave Sherman
make entries for each PC in your 'hosts' files (C:\Windows\hosts for Win98, /etc/hosts for Linux). The syntax for these files is self-explanatory. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety

Re: [expert] Terminus (game), a few others, and Mandrake 8.2

2002-09-03 Thread Dave Sherman
. -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) signature.asc Description

Re: [expert] beta testing messages

2002-09-03 Thread Dave Sherman
is referring to the various bug reports we've been seeing come in. Bug reports should, of course, be reported on the cooker list so the developers can see and respond to them -- hopefully by fixing them :-) Support requests, unofficial workarounds, et cetera, should come here. -- Dave Sherman

Re: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Sherman
to pay me what I would like, but at the time I took the job, I wanted a steady salary more than I wanted to keep looking for contracts and/or employment :-) -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-13 Thread Dave Sherman
Network Neighborhood, placing the outgoing fax into a network shared for outgoing faxes. All in all, HylaFax is a pretty slick package with tons of functionality, if a bit complicated at times. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you

Re: [expert] Drag and drop file sharing.

2002-08-09 Thread Dave Sherman
window, rather than bringing up a Save As... dialog? More info, please. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [expert] PCMCIA: Texas Instruments PCI1420 not working afterkernel-update

2002-07-29 Thread Dave Sherman
, you were missing the particular module source that you need. Therefore, no such module was compiled/created. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup

Re: [expert] kernel header package?

2002-07-14 Thread Dave Sherman
find confirmation on that using some basic searches, though. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread Dave Sherman
that deleted and recreated the Default link. I changed Default to default and gdm took it. (Just read my posts for clarity on that. Try at your own risk. :D) - Kathy I went to the archives and followed what you did, Kathy. GDM defaults to Gnome now :-) Thanks! -- Dave Sherman Do

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-25 Thread Dave Sherman
? Very good point. I breezed right past that one, because I was focused on the line above :-) -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-24 Thread Dave Sherman
the IP address of itself, by pointing it at the standard localhost address. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc

Re: [expert] Graphical login after kde3 upg

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
instead. As for your actual problem, I don't really have any advice except to check /var/log/message and to run dmesg, which shows messages from the last time you booted your system. This could help if your system is generating any errors at the hardware/driver level. -- Dave Sherman Do

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
it this will help but in /etc/syconconfig there is a file called desktop. Make sure that is set to GNOME not KDE. James On 22 Jun 2002 22:45:45 -0500 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Here's the situation: I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up to date

[expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-22 Thread Dave Sherman
gdmconf a number of times, and it seems to accept my change to default the desktop to Gnome, but after rebooting it is always back to KDE again. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy

Re: [expert] i cant right click on desktop ...

2002-06-15 Thread Dave Sherman
management from Nautilus to GMC or even to nothing? Or did you uninstall Nautilus or GMC or part of you window manager, and perhaps break the desktop? Just a few ideas. I've been running Gnome ever since Mandrake 7.2, and I've never run into this kind of problem. -- Dave Sherman Do

Re: [expert] PCMCIA Issues

2002-05-30 Thread Dave Sherman
but something else, perhaps related to the order in which pcmcia was started and then networking (my pcmcia card was a NIC, so they need to load in the correct order) :-( -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy

Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Sherman
been answered multiple times. Ashley Ashley, This is just Craig's bent humor. Personally, I love it. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http

Re: [expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Sherman
. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import signature.asc Description

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Sherman
be greatfull... -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import signature.asc

[expert] Outstanding article at the Register

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Sherman
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24858.html -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg

Re: [expert] Win4Lin Impressions?

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Sherman
. Well, that was more than I intended to say. Hope it answers your questions. Otherwise, feel free to ask. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good

Re: [expert] Using Samba as a PDC

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 02:34, Brian York wrote: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html I finally got around to following this link and downloading the pdf file. Thanks for providing it! -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA

Re: [expert] GUI for Oggenc?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:54, Sevatio wrote: Any recommendations for a frontend to Oggenc? This is for converting wav - ogg. grip -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy

Re: [expert] network connections - automatic retry

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Sherman
//server', then parse the output to look for the correct share name). Then, if the server and share exist, run smbmount with the appropriate options to mount your samba server/share. Then, create a cron job that will run the script every 5 minutes. -- Dave Sherman Beware

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-04-07 Thread Dave Sherman
have a price tag attached. *Standard disclaimer* I am not a lawyer, and have made no in-depth analysis of the GPL. The above statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and understanding, including everything I have ever read about or from Richard M. Stallman. -- Dave Sherman

Re: [expert] Open Office problems

2002-04-02 Thread Dave Sherman
for me. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import signature.asc Description

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Sherman
. Starting with a fresh install or new partition, I would use Reiser. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Dave Sherman
great on my system, using dhcp at home and work (it's a laptop). -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org

[expert] Mozilla 0.9.9 and TrueType fonts

2002-03-16 Thread Dave Sherman
rpm available at mozilla.org (to avoid libpng issues). I have libfreetype.so.6, in /usr/lib, so I think it should be in the standard library path :-) -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSA, MCSE, CCNAfor you are crunchy, Business

Re: [expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-16 Thread Dave Sherman
application I have ever tried, including the various x-terms, so it should work in pine. I use this method in gnome-terminal with vi all the time. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSA, MCSE, CCNAfor you are crunchy, Business Solutions

Re: [expert] Upgrading Mozilla problems

2002-02-19 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 08:18, Mitchell, Edmund wrote: Hello all On a stock install of LM8.1, I'm trying to upgrade the .9.4 Mozilla with the .9.7 Mozilla Mandrake .rpm from rpmfind. I did an rpm -Uvh --test mozilla(etc) and got failed dependencies for libnspr4 = 0.9.7 is needed by

Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Dave, Why not just use the Mozilla tarball as opposed to the RPM install? it's a simple untar and copy of files to install without having to worry about breaking things like Evolution. To my knowledge the only thing that might not work would

Re: [expert] (solved) mounting a windows 2000 share on 8.1

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
Ed, that won't work unless you have direct access to the other PC through either a local network (LAN) or a virtual private network (VPN). In your case, if your lab is not in your home, you will need a VPN set up so that your home PC thinks it is on the same network as your lab PC. Dave On Sun,

Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:19, Michael Holt wrote: 8:15am... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking: Generally speaking, I prefer the dependency checking and version control of RPMs. But since I will probably never really uninstall Mozilla, this might work. Have you ever tried to install

Re: [expert] (solved) mounting a windows 2000 share on 8.1

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
If you are doing this across the Internet, then I would be seriously concerned about security if I were you. By accessing your network share on the public Internet, you passed your username and password in plain text for anyone with a sniffer to see and abuse. On the other hand, if you have a

Re: [expert] (solved) mounting a windows 2000 share on 8.1

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:21, J. Craig Woods wrote: Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hi That is funny. I am creating iso image of my files in the lab right now. The only think I did was mount -t smbfs /mnt/share. It worked! It is not a local LAN. As for the VPN I have no idea.

Re: [expert] freeswan

2002-02-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:51, synrat wrote: what module do I need to load to be able to use freeswan?? any tips on freeswan configuration and usage are also appreciated. thanx http://freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/index.html Start reading... Dave -- Beware the wrath of

[expert] Fwd: Evolution error!

2002-02-16 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I am temporarily forced to use Kmail while I try to fix Evolution. This is the first time I have ever had trouble with it, and for the life of me I can't figure out what is the problem... When I try to launch Evolution, I get a

SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 17:44, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I am temporarily forced to use Kmail while I try to fix Evolution. This is the first time I have ever had trouble with it, and for the life of me I can't figure out what

Re: [expert] Mozilla from RedHat RPM

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 12:03, Felix Miata wrote: Dismal search site. Even though I used mozilla +0.9.8 +mdk The results include 96 hits, and only the cooker version of mdk 0.9.8, which I'm sure must not be the release version. I tried adding -src to the search, and got the exact

Re: [expert] Mozilla from RPM

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 15:36, Felix Miata wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: No, you found the correct version. There is no release version yet since Mozilla hasn't hit 1.0. Wrong answer: Releases, even in beta, are found at: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/ Perhaps release

Re: [expert] dhcpd at boot time - Where?

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 17:55, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I wonder what is the script that calls dhdcp -H eth0 during boot time. I need to remove the option -H but I can't find where dhcpd is called. The actual script is in /etc/init.d/, however it is probably symlinked to a file

Re: [expert] Gnomba

2002-02-06 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:27, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi list , This is a question about Gnomba 0.6.2 I am running MDK 8.0 I have set up gnomba to mount to a file in my home directory and can see the shared folders from the netwok in this directory but when i open these folders there is

Re: [expert] Totally lost here

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:55, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I have yet again recompiled my kernel (2.4.17). This time, instead of building the oss solo1 module into the kernel, I opted to make it a module and also build alsa. Done and done. Now, when I bootup alsa starts, it is clearly

Re: [expert] MySQL _answers_ needed

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 14:25, Jason Guidry wrote: Ok, after applying every fix for this i can find, i need an answer. i get the following when trying to connect to mysql Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) I'm trying to connect with mysqlgui because i'm

Re: [expert] gnome 1.4 desktop

2002-01-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 17:46, richard wrote: Hi , galeon 1.0.2 is now installed looks like its missing a few things as the mandrake page looks horrible, with missing icons...find those later ? Maybe a missing library, or library version problem? Hard to say unless we see a specific error

Re: [expert] What now with konqueror?

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 12:42, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I gave up on my system and wiped it and then reinstalled 8.1 from scratch AGAIN (3 times in so many days). It booted up, identified my pcmcia 3c589 OK and got me a connection. Sound still dead. I just can't get konqueror to startup

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 22:22, Jim Dawson wrote: Personally, I'm not to optimistic that a viable replacment for X is going to happen anytime soon. Sure, X has it's warts but it works well enough for most applications that developing an alternative isn't too high a priority. And besides, any

Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 17:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux

Re: [expert] JDK Look and Feel, Mozilla and Star office

2002-01-19 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 05:20, Tom Badran wrote: Also, both star office and mozilla have 'quick start' daemons under windows so a portion of the programis kept in memory resulting in quicker loads for systems with plenty of ram. Is it possible to set this up under linux also? Mozilla'

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